“Before I answer your questions, I must ask one of my own,” the Ravener started. “How did the Mark of the Fool become the Mark of the General once more? What did you do? The creator desired for that Hero to be eliminated. They were too arrogant. They did not know their role. Ge...
2024-06-12 21:10:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe surprise attack had failed.
Even with what should have been the element of surprise and superior numbers, its mighty Ravener-spawn were dead, killed by traitors and outlanders. Very quickly. It could detect no casualties among the mortals…and they were still coming at full speed...
2024-06-11 20:40:28 +0000 UTC View Post“What is it?” Thundar raised his weapon. “What’s coming?”
The party readied themselves for battle, all watching the ceiling.
Was it Alex’s imagination, or was there more stone dust falling all of a sudden?
“Hold on.” Prince Khalik went to the nearest wall, closin...
2024-06-08 21:29:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe Ravener floated in its chamber, its power increasing.
The creator’s divine energy was flowing in faster. What had slowed to a trickle was now a stream, a rising unbroken stream.
Soon, reining in its power would no longer be necessary.
Soon.
But for now, its focus mus...
2024-06-08 00:52:07 +0000 UTC View PostAlexander Roth, General of Thameland, couldn’t help but feel a familiar unease creeping inside.
Walking through the earthen tunnels being carved by his earth elementals, he remembered the journey from Alric with Theresa, Selina and Brutus, when they’d first entered the Cave of the Trave...
2024-06-06 21:47:46 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ve used probably about half of my mana stores, but the regeneration technique is recovering them quickly,” Prince Khalik said. On his shoulder, Najyah’s neck swivelled, her eyes appraising their surroundings with their cold, predatory gaze.
“I’ve got over three quarters right...
2024-06-05 21:19:44 +0000 UTC View PostWith all haste, the Ravener had changed the confines of its dungeon.
At the farthest reaches of its tunnels, an ocean of water had poured into its lair, drowning Ravener-spawn as it surged. The construct was forced to give its full attention to sealing the passages before the bulk of its ar...
2024-06-04 21:40:26 +0000 UTC View PostThere were ambushes.
And then there were ambushes.
This one was the latter.
The earth exploded below Alex, unleashing clouds of stone, soil and dust like a bomb. Massive tunnels gaped open in the wilderness, belching out hundreds of Ravener-spawn.
The creatures ro...
2024-06-01 21:27:43 +0000 UTC View PostLuthering was on fire. Thameish blood flowed between burning buildings as monsters stalked from structure to structure, feasting on soldiers caught by claws, flames, and fangs, preventing their escape.
“How did it come to this…” Sir Sean Swift whispered.
Th...
2024-05-31 22:54:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe power trickled in, helping…immensely.
Deep within the Ravener’s cavern, Uldar’s construct drank deeply of the energy that Lord Aenflynn had provided. Its flagging stores of strength began rising again, allowing it to make adjustments within itself.
“Thank you,” ...
2024-05-30 22:45:34 +0000 UTC View PostAlex had no idea how long they’d been travelling across Och Fir Nog.
Many minutes, but probably less than an hour.
They passed marching and spawning Ravener-spawn, new births slowed by his magic starving the Ravener of fear. For now. At least, for now.
As they flew...
2024-05-30 00:38:37 +0000 UTC View Post“And the wind rose when he called upon it.” Merzhin’s voice echoed through the sky.
Uldar’s divine power flowed through his soul.
Ahead of him, the other Heroes fought Ravener-spawn in a sky filled with the monsters.
Blood-draks and blood-hydras.
Spea...
2024-05-28 21:07:20 +0000 UTC View Post“What is it?” Alex hissed, watching the two mighty beings in the sky, staring each other down.
“Patience, I am making sure, archwizard,” the engeli said. “There is so much divinity in the air that I could err if I am not careful.”
“Alright, but—” Alex s...
2024-05-25 20:46:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe Ravener rippled with power.
Dungeon cores, by the number, swarmed from its black surface and into the waiting claws of its Ravener-spawn. The creatures darted away, taking the orbs from the lair and through the tunnels, transporting them so new dungeons could be built near their ally’...
2024-05-24 21:44:52 +0000 UTC View Post“How can you wield Uldar’s power?” Merzhin demanded. “It’s…not yours! And you’re no priest!”
“Many energies can be manipulated if you know the right tricks and know the energy well enough.” Aenflynn’s earthen projection smiled at the Saint. “And I know the tricks, an...
2024-05-23 20:50:54 +0000 UTC View PostGwyllain, the asrai, sincerely wondered what great and powerful being he had managed to annoy.
He couldn’t remember angering any fae lord, ancient dragon, mighty witch or irritable godling, but he must have, at some point.
Otherwise, there was no way his luck could be ...
2024-05-22 21:24:38 +0000 UTC View Post“I swear, I’s gonna rip Aenflynn in half m’self.” Cedric threatened beneath his breath. He was standing in the laboratory with the rest of the team, watching as the anti-dungeon warping device was loaded onto a floating platform. “I’ll choke th’life from ‘im.”
“You can...
2024-05-21 21:43:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hehehehehe, I'm so excited. These are four random images from the upcoming webtoon.
Just a little taste :)
Can't wait until y'all can see the rest!
“Acid!” Watcher Hill shouted, raising her staff. “Get those walls of force up!”
Ahead, a devastating river of death spread across the land with full force, crossing thousands of feet in seconds.
“Activate defensive glyphs!” Professor Jules shouted.
Watchers chanted, ...
2024-05-18 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostAlex had not laid eyes on Alric in three years.
Three years, since he’d last seen his childhood home. Now, he was finally back, and it was under siege. Thameish soldiers stood on the town’s walls, desperately firing arrows and crossbow bolts.
Endless enemies swarmed around t...
2024-05-17 20:30:43 +0000 UTC View PostWhere there was once an unassuming hole in the side of a hill in the Coille Forest, a small fortress of wood, earth and stone, now stood.
More than three hundred yards of vegetation had been cleared from the mouth of the Cave of the Traveller, and an intimidating log wall stretched ar...
2024-05-16 21:34:17 +0000 UTC View PostAlex Roth and his business partner materialised in Shale’s garden, and hit the ground running.
“They’re already at the capital?” Toraka asked, passing fruit trees and rose bushes swaying in the low, night wind.
“They’re everywhere,” Alex ran by iron g...
2024-05-15 15:15:57 +0000 UTC View PostHey hey everybody!
IT'S TIME TO DUEL-I MEAN BOOK 7! It’s time for book 7!
Book 7 launching on amazon! Thank you for sticking with me for this long.
So before I give the link for book 7, I want to say a couple of things. I’m STILL working on Oaths, Blood and C...
What remained of Errol’s corpse fell to the parapet.
His bottom half dropped.
The top half was gone.
But as horrified as King Athelstan was, he had no time to mourn.
He barely had time to throw himself to the ground as blasts of air ripped through stone all around them. ...
2024-05-14 22:39:02 +0000 UTC View PostKing Athelstan startled awake.
The odour of burning wood and flesh assaulted his nose.
Light flickered through the bedchamber shutters and screams echoed outside.
Someone pounded on his door.
“My king! We are under attack!” a frantic voice called. “Ravener-spawn, of ...
2024-05-11 20:58:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe Ravener was in the fae wild.
It was a theory.
Only a theory.
But, if it was true? Much could now be explained.
Weeks spent searching Thameland—every river, hill, mountain, forest and glen they could find—had turned up nothing. No Ravener. No sign of Uldar’s...
2024-05-10 23:44:33 +0000 UTC View PostMonths.
Months spent priming its oldest inner pathways.
Months spent in contemplation.
Months spent crafting not one, but three Skyfire Swarms.
…and all three had been defeated in mere minutes.
“Impossible. Impossible. Impossible,”&...
2024-05-09 21:21:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe west was growing brighter as trees swayed in the hot wind.
Screeching birds fled the woods; and below them, beasts scattered, rushing through the Fields of Cormac, crying out in fear.
The smell of smoke was stronger, and in the distance, clouds evaporated.
“By the Travelle...
2024-05-08 23:10:16 +0000 UTC View PostEvening brightened.
And with each passing heartbeat, the war-spirit’s expression turned more vicious.
Her words played through Alex’s mind.
‘Great violence is coming.’
“What do you mean?” he asked.
A crowd was gathering; Thameish soldiers, ...
2024-05-07 22:20:47 +0000 UTC View PostNight was falling.
Across the Fields of Cormac, pyres were dying. Flame had given way to embers, ash and the blackened remains of Ravener-spawn. The soldiers’ clean-up was done, but they had paused on their journey to Welling for the night, pointing at a gathering in the middle of the fie...
2024-05-04 20:34:55 +0000 UTC View Post